Course overview
This course focuses on the definition, development and description of a major culminating urban design project that both challenges and demonstrates students' skills in and knowledge of urban design. The project will be of moderate complexity, negotiating issues at several scales and alert to multiple social, political and biophysical environmental and engineering contexts. Responses should demonstrate familiarity with common processes and competency in typical phases of urban design thought and practice. The final presentation should show thorough integration of all major urban design considerations as taught in the academic program and be inclusive of relevant broader planning knowledge.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of the various bio-physical, historical, political-economic, and social-cultural layers of the city, and work with these to form a consciously designed intervention.
- Synthesise general theoretical models, analytical approaches to urban issues and contexts, technical knowledges, stakeholder interests and ethical frameworks, and individual vision into an integrated urban design proposition.
- Articulate their stance and position as a designer within discourses of urbanism.
- Demonstrate high quality communication, representation and visual skills appropriate to urban design projects, including written, verbal, graphical and model-based presentation.
- Research and analyse information relevant to developing urban design interventions and propositions.
- Demonstrate abilities in teamwork and time management for group and individual work.
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